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| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Alexei Kervezee |
| Coach | Jason Harrison |
| Chairman | Ian Hodgson |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1891 |
| Home ground | Various |
| History | |
| National/Minor Counties Championship wins | 11 + 1 Shared |
| NCCA Knockout Trophy wins | 1 |
| Official website | Bucks CCC |
Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of twentyNationalCounty clubs within the domesticcricket structure ofEngland andWales. It represents thehistoric county ofBuckinghamshire.
The team is currently a member of theNational Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in theNCCA Knockout Trophy. Buckinghamshire playedList A matches occasionally from 1965 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A teamper se.[1]
The club plays its matches around the county at various locations including at Wormsley on the Getty Estate. Until 1979 it played regularly atAscott Park, the home of theRothschild family which was prominent in the club's foundation.
A match in October 1730 on Datchet Heath (now known as Datchet Common), outside the village ofDatchet nearWindsor, is the first reference to cricket in Buckinghamshire. Datchet is nowadays inBerkshire but was historically part of Buckinghamshire.
In September 1740, a team called "Buckinghamshire, Berkshire & Hertfordshire" played two matches against the famousLondon Cricket Club atUxbridge and theArtillery Ground. London won the first "with great difficulty" but no post-match report was found of the second.[3]
In 1759, an All-England team that played three matches against the notedDartford Cricket Club included a wicketkeeper called Gill from Buckinghamshire. The same player almost certainly featured in another All-England team in 1772.[4]
A number of games involving Buckinghamshire teams are mentioned in newspapers of the late 18th century. Unlike neighbouringBerkshire, Buckinghamshire was never considered a first-class county.
The present Buckinghamshire CCC was founded on 15 January 1891 as "Bucks County Cricket Club" with theRothschild family prominent in its formation. Family memberAnthony Gustav de Rothschild even represented the club.
Buckinghamshire joined the Minor Counties Championship in the competition's second season, 1896. Buckinghamshire declined an invitation to join the first-classCounty Championship in 1921 because of the lack of first-class facilities in the county. Buckinghamshire has won the Championship outright 11 times (1922, 1923, 1925, 1932, 1938, 1952, 1969, 1987, 2009, 2023 and 2025) and shared the title in 1899 withNorthamptonshire.[2] In 2006, they won the Eastern Division, but lost in the final toDevon.[2] Buckinghamshire has won theMCCA Knockout Trophy once since its inception in 1983,[2] in 1990, defeatingLincolnshire in the final atLord's[5] The most successful period for the county came under the captaincy ofWalter Franklin, who led them to five Championships in the 1920s and 1930s.
The county first playedList A cricket in the1965 Gillette Cup againstMiddlesex.[6] The county appeared in 32 List A matches from 1965 to 2005, winning eight and losing 24, the majority of which against first-class opponents.[6] The county claimed a first-class scalp once, defeatingSomerset in the1987 NatWest Trophy.[7] Buckinghamshire lost the right to play List A cricket when the Minor counties were excluded from theCheltenham & Gloucester Trophy from the2006 season onward.[8]
The following Buckinghamshire cricketers also made an impact on thefirst-class game:
The club have no fixed home, but play their matches at various grounds across the county.
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